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say it: shird
sheared is an adjective meaning "having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers". It is pronounced /ˈʃɪɹd/ — shird. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
“a coat of sheared lamb”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sheared come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.